2012-05-24T14:56:28Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/combat-medicine.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1003.html Apr 24, 2012 Apr 24, 2012

The authors propose a planning concept for U.S. military expeditionary medical care that, by promoting patient flow rate as the common unit of measurement, will help integrate medical planning across treatment and evacuation functions, across the increasing levels of care, and across the different military services.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9626.html Nov 21, 2011 Nov 21, 2011

Describes a new equipping strategy for the Army's Combat Support Hospitals.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB613.html Apr 18, 2011 Apr 18, 2011

This documented briefing presents the results of a rapid review of the funding landscape for complex trauma research in the UK. Recommendations are made about how to strengthen this niche and orphan area of research.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR859.html Jan 12, 2011 Jan 12, 2011

The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) currently runs three in-theater hospitals for severely injured or wounded personnel. Part of the practioners' preparation was treating DoD beneficiaries for a broad range of injuries and illnesses. Opportunities for this preparation are not as numerous "in house" as they once were, and AFMS does not always get proper credit for those gained elsewhere. Proper credit for that work is important for funding.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG887.html Jun 30, 2010 Jun 30, 2010

<p>Combat Support Hospitals, when not deployed, keep a partial set of equipment at home station with the remainder in long-term storage, a strategy that has created maintenance and obsolescence challenges. This briefing describes a new strategy for configuring home station equipment sets and proposes that deploying CSHs eliminate much of the unit-owned equipment currently in long-term storage, actions that will sharply reduce total equipment costs.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N1924.html Dec 31, 1981 Dec 31, 1981

<p>Based on selective conversations with Israeli physicians, nurses, and administrators, the Note describes facets of Israeli military medical organization, functioning, and thinking that might be applicable to the U.S. Air Force.</p>

http://www.rand.org/about/people/t/tanielian_terri.html

<em>Director, RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research; Senior Social Research Analyst</em><br>M.A. in psychology, American University; B.A. in psychology, Boston University